"WINSTER, although but a chapelry to Youlgreave, and now an
inconsiderable village, was once a market town of some note. It is six miles from
Bakewell, and 13 S.W. from Chesterfield, situate on the old road from Ashbourn
to the latter town, and midway between the river Derwent and the Cromford and
High Peak railway, about three miles from each; with the latter of which a branch
communication is contemplated."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]